New Delhi, July 3 -- India's ruling establishment has perfected a particular political skill over the past decade. It is not the skill of breaking rules, but of instrumentalising them so completely th... Read More
New Delhi, July 3 -- The National Democratic Alliance coalition which came to power in Andhra Pradesh in June 2024 has often cast itself as the guardian of Hindu religious sanctity. The allegation lev... Read More
New Delhi, July 2 -- When the BJP released its manifesto ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, it made the return of displaced Kashmiri Pandits one of its key promises for Jammu and Kashmir. "The ret... Read More
New Delhi, July 2 -- From the time the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on June 24, 2025, that it would conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar, a questi... Read More
New Delhi, July 2 -- In India, books on environment and wildlife tend to fall into a few familiar categories. The first category is collections of essays by researchers with expert knowledge of the su... Read More
New Delhi, July 2 -- You can picture it instantly: that austere brick frontage, with its sash windows, protective railings, and forbidding black door, framed by a pillared portico. Nothing showy about... Read More
New Delhi, July 2 -- Vijaya Mehta, fondly called Vijaya-bai, and, for me, just Bai, passed away on the night of June 30. With her ended an era of Marathi theatre. I say "Marathi theatre" because she w... Read More
New Delhi, July 2 -- America is a different planet from the rest of Earth. Don't get taken in by talk about the rising standards of living in other countries, or by America's societal division, etc. T... Read More
New Delhi, July 2 -- In the opening chapter, "Where you weren't looking: Tales from Small-Town India", of the recently published volume, Queer India Now (edited by Dhamini Ratnam and Dhrubo Jyoti), Dh... Read More
New Delhi, July 2 -- There is no dearth of discussion regarding the complications around India's Great Nicobar Project. The most pressing question remains whether economic and security requirements sh... Read More